Multiple service window bay



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' MULTIPLE SERVICE WINDOW BAY" Filed Dec. 30, 1948 fwveni rr',

Patented Jan. 27, 1953 D STATES i ahiNT GFFICE MULTIPLE SERVECE WINBOWBAY Joseph C. Williams, Santa Menica, Calif. Application December 30,1948, Serial No. 68,136

1 Claim. 1

This invention is a multiple service, window bay.

It is very desirable to have a simple, attractive, practical and lowcost window and combined bay structure readily convertible into one oranother adaptation, as for use as a spare bed compartment externallyclosable by adjustable sashes in case of inclement weather and fullyopen into an adjacent building room; or for use as an open suncompartment opening to the room.

The invention resides in certain advancements in this art as set forthin the ensuing disclosure and having, with the above, additional objectsand advantages as will be made manifest in the following description ofthe herewith illustrative apparatus; it being understood thatmodifications. variations, adaptations and equivalents may be resortedto within the scope, spirit and principles of the invention as it isclaimed in conclusion hereof.

Figure 1 is a horizontal section of building structural parts, showingthe sashes in top edge plan, in external bay closing arrangement andshowing the bed in plan.

Figure 2 is a detail, horizontal, cross-section of a bed leg, and itsweight-cable connection to a guiding runner on the leg.

Figure 3 is a perspective of the wall bay of Fig. 1, and illustrates apartly elevated bed in the bay.

Figure 4 is a vertical, transverse section of the bay wall structuralparts, partly on a plane alon one end of a disappearing bed frame, andshowing far end bed cables diagrammatically, in a broken-away wall part.

Here illustrated is a building wall 2 having head-way opening 3 of aboutthe length of a bed or cot 4 on the floor 5 of an exterior bay to whichthe wall opening leads.

Outer, balcony or bay corner columns 6 have vertical, inwardly facinggrooves (is to receive runners 4r rigidly affixed to legs 4a of whichthe bed has one at each corner; the legs and their runners acting asguides for the bed as it is bodily elevated to a concealed position inthe upper space of the bay-to be invisible from the adjacent room at theopening 3. The bed is substantially counter-balanced as by weights Wwhich are operative in hollow front wall columns 6f at the sides of thewall opening and are atn tached by cables C led over suitably arrangedpulleys P to the mentioned rigid runners 4r. Preferably the bed body iscomposed Of a flat panel of substantial, rigid material such as strong,stiff plywood or its equivalent-to obtain advantage of low weight andsmall thickness, and on which may be secured any suitable spring ormattress M. The pulleys P have hangers P attached to fixed wall parts ofthe bay.

From the foregoing it will be seen that when the bed is to be used it islowered from an uppermost position behind the wall in which the walkinentry 3 is provided, note Fig. 4, and when the bed is not in use it maybe elevated to the dotted line position and when in such position it iseffectively concealed from the room to which the bay opens by way of theentry 3. When the bed is thusly in its concealed, elevated position thecleared floor of the bay becomes additive area as to the near room byway of the opening 3 which is of walk-in height.

What is claimed is:

A multiple service window bay and bed structure comprising thecombination: a building wall having at one side a room and at theopposite side a window bay and provided with a headway opening leadingfrom the room to the said bay, a horizontal bed in said bay havingattached means for raising or lowering said bed in a constantlyhorizontal position from a lowered or useful position to an elevatedposition in the bay to be concealed from the room by said wall, thewalls of the bay having guide ways at the corners of the bed, andrunners on the bed having cooperative engagement with said guide ways tolimit side and end shift of the bed at any position thereof; said bayand said room having a common plane floor for ready walk-in from one tothe other when the bed is in position above the level of the header ofthe head-way open- JOSEPH C. WILLIAMS.

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